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‎EURIPIDES.‎

‎De Fenicische vrouwen. Treurspel naar Euripides door P. Camper Ph. Th. M. & L.H. Doctor.‎

‎Zutphen Bij H.C.A. Thieme 1823. I4 XLVIII1404 p. Red morocco. 21 cm Ref: Geerebaert XXXVII11; not in OiN Details: Back ruled gilt and with a beige shield in the 'second compartment'. Boards with borders consisting of a row of gilt floral motives. Edges of the boards and of the bookblock also gilt. Oval engraving on the title page designed bij P. Camper and engraved by D. Veelwaard. Marbled endpapers Condition: Binding somewhat soiled and worn at the extremes. An extra flyleaf once bound before the title has been removed. On this disappeared flyleaf Camper probably wrote a dedication. Faint ink traces of this dedication are still visible on the verso of the flyleaf. The Royal Library in The Hague has a copy of this title bound in exact the same binding but still having Camper's dedication to the Minister of Education Note: Verse translation into Dutch of Euripides' Phoenissae' made by the conrector of the 'schola latina' at Zutphen Petrus Camper 1797-1852. 'Zij is getrouw vloeijend schoon. Ook de achter aan geplaatste aanteekeningen doen den Dichter eere aan. Deze lettervrucht is derhalve eene gunstige onderscheiding waardig'. 'Boekzaal der geleerde wereld: en tijdschrift voor de Protestantsche kerken' Amsterdam 1829 p. 193 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 157772

‎House of Collectibles‎

‎The Official Price Guide to Hummels: Compact Guide 4th Edition‎

‎1986-09-12. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0876375263 ISBN : 0876375263 9780876375266

‎VALERIUS FLACCUS.‎

‎Caii Valerii Flacci Argonautica. Ioan. Baptistae Pii carmen ex quarto Argonauticon Apollonii. Orphei Argonautica innominato interprete.‎

‎Lyon Lugduni Apud Seb. Gryphium 1548. 16mo. 3081 colophon1 blank p. Limp vellum 11.5 cm Ref: USTC 149936; Schweiger 21099 incorrect See note: 'Nachdruck der Strassb. Ausg. Die Vorrede der Aldine u. die des Engentinus sind mit abgedr.'; Graesse 6/2 241; Ebert 23289; cf. Brunet 51045 Details: Printed completely in italics. On the title the printer's mark of Sebastianus Gryphius depicting a griffin which mythological animal symbolizes courage diligence watchfulness and rapidity of execution used as a pun of his family name Gryph or Greif. From the claws of this creature hangs a big rectangular stone symbolizing Constancy beneath which hangs a winged globe symbolizing Fortune. The motto is 'Virtute duce / comite fortuna' 'Virtue thy leader fortune thy comrade' a quote from a letter of Cicero to Plancus Epistulae ad Familiares liber X3 Condition: Vellum soiled and wrinkled. All four textile fastening ties gone. Both pastedowns damaged and detached. Front hinge partly loosening but holding. Front flyleaf removed. Faint dampstain in the first 5 quires. Some small old ink annotations. Right upper corner of leaf d3 p. 53/4 torn off without loss of text. Corners slightly bruised Note: The bibliographies of Schweiger Ebert and Graesse state that this 'Argonautica' edition of 1548 published by Sebastianus Gryphius is a reissue of the Valerius Flaccus edition of 1525 edited in Strassburg by Philippus Engentinus. This is not correct. In the first place this Gryphius has exactly the same title as the Aldus edition of 1523 which was produced by the Italian humanist scholar Giovan Battista Pio latinized as Ioannes Baptista Pius. It contains also the same text that is the preliminary pages the 'Argonautica' of Valerius Flaccus book I-VIII verse 467 and also a continuation of book VIII taken from Apollonius Rhodius' earlier Greek version of the 'Argonautica' translated into Latin by Ioannes Pius. At the end we find a Latin translation of an unknown hand of the 'Orphei Argonautica'. Pius' continuation of Book VIII to X starts where a premature death overtook Valerius Flaccus and prevented him to finish the epic. The poem breaks off abruptly with the pursuit of the Argo by Absyrtus brother of Medea. This continuation is repeated in our Gryphius edition of 1548 but is absent in the Strassburg edition of Engentius as are the preliminary pages. Furthermore the Strassburg edition ends at verse 466 of book VIII: 'Temptat & ipse gemens & tempora currere dictis. FINIS'. This line is the last but one in The Gryphius and Aldus edition in both the last verse is 467: 'mene aliquid metuisse putas me talia velle' The bibliographers were probably mislead by the adoption at the end by Gryphius of the dedication of Philippus Engentinus dated 1525 from his Strassburg edition. � Not much is known about the Roman poet Valerius Flaccus who wrote an epic 'Argonautica' and who died in 92 or 93 A.D. It is agreed by 'practically all modern authorities that the 'Argonautica' was never completed and that its imperfect conclusion must not be put down to mutilation of a manuscript or omission to complete a copy. There is plenty of internal evidence of unrevised work both in the language and the details of the plot and incidents. As to the former there are many passages where it is necessary to mark a lacuna or to supply a line to complete the sense'. Valerius Flaccus with an English translation by J.H. Mozley Cambr. Mass. 1972 p. VIII As all the poets of his time Valerius Flaccus was strongly influenced by Vergil but he 'is a better poet than they in so far he is less excessively rhetorical than Lucan and a more original genius than Statius'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 1105 His 'Argonautica' is indebted to the 'Argonautica' of the Greek poet Apollonius Rhodius who flourished ca. 200 B.C. but it is certainly not a close imitation. The differences are in the portrayal of the characters and the incidents in the story. 'The 'Orphei Argonautica' Orphic Argonautica was once believed to be among the oldest Greek poems but today it is known that the poem is the work of a late Antique author working in the fourth century CE or later and writing in a form of Greek that consciously imitated often wrongly the diction and vocabulary of Homer. The poem of 1376 hexameter verses takes the form of a first-person account of the Argonauts' voyage from the mouth of Orpheus who views himself as the hero addressing the poem to his disciple Musaeus. The poem . found fame in the early modern period along with other Orphic poetry as a prefiguration or distortion of Biblical truths'. The Orphic Argonautica translated by Jason Colavito Collation: a-t8 u4 minus blank leaf u4; u3 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 120178

‎PETRONIUS & PRIAPEIA.‎

‎Titi Petronii Arbitri Equitis Romani Satyricon cum fragmentis Albae Graecae recuperatis anno 1688. Bound with: PRIAPEIA sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus; illustrati commentariis Gasperis Schoppii Franci. L. Apuleii Madaurensis ANECHOMENOS ab eodem illustratus. Heraclii Imperatoris Sophoclis Sophistae C. Antonii Q. Sorani & Cleopatrae reginae Epistolae de propudiosa Cleopatrae reginae libidine. Huic editioni accedunt Josephi Scaligeri In Priapeia commentarii ac Friderici Linden-Bruch in eadem notae.‎

‎Ad 1: Leipzig Lipsiae Apud Casparum Fritsch 1731. Ad 2: Patavii Apud Gerhardum Nicolaum V. 1664 in fact: Leipzig 1731. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: XVI184 p.; XVI1751 blank p. Vellum. 17 cm 'A double hoax' Ref: Ad 1 & 2: Schweiger 2725 & 2821; Brunet 4869; Graesse 5239 & 5441; Ebert 16523 & 17919; Smitskamp 'The Scaliger Collection' no. 130; Schmeling/Stuckey no. 100. Not yet in VD18 Details: Woodcut printer's device on the first title depicting a flying Hermes strewing books over the earth from a cornucopia. Edges dyed red Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Brown stain on the lower board. Two ownership entries on the front flyleaf. Small stamp on the verso of the second title. Small ink annotation on the last free endpaper. A few faint and small ink annotations. Some foxing. Small capita numbers occasionally in the margins. A rust hole in the paper of the leaves 5 & 6 Note: Ad 1: In 1658 a Jesuit scholar warned that the 'Satyricon' a comic novel of the Roman author Petronius first century AD was unsuitable reading for young christians. The Flemish Humanist Justus Lipsius 'famously branded Petronius an 'auctor purissimae impuritatis' 'author of the purest impurity''. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 706 Humanists were intrigued by the fragmentary nature of the surviving text and the sexual explicit episodes in the novel. In 1650 a large fragment of the Satyricon the 'Cena Trimalchionis' was discovered. The discovery lent a significant impetus to the study of the 'Satyricon' and to the imagination of some scholars. The most successful hoax was a so-called 'complete version of the Satyricon published by Fran�ois Nodot in 1691 supposedly based on a newly discovered manuscript from Belgrade'. Idem. p. 707 Alba Graeca is Belgrade The text of this fraudulent hoax was reissued by Fritsch in this work of 1731. Ad 2: This title is an imitation including the place and year of printing of a Priapeia edition of 1664. It is what Graesse calls a 'contrefa�on'. It was in fact published by Fleischer in Leipzig in 1731. The usual reference works for classics notice that the two works in this binding often come together. Many libraries and bibliographers did not notice the scam and erroneously described the 'contrefa�on' as published in 1664. � The Priapeia or Priapea is a collection of 85/90 erotic Latin poems composed to honour the ithyphallic Roman god of fertility and sexuality Priapus. The poems were composed by one or more anonymous poets and collected in de first century A.D. They show a close relationship with Ovid and Martial. Erotic in content and witty in tone the poems are brilliant in style versification and composition. The subject matter of the poems may be limited the poets however make ingenious variations on the symbol of Priapus his huge phallus the thieves chastised with this rod and the offerings for this god. The elegance of the seemingly effortless versification stirs the imagination of the reader in spite of the limitations the vulgar language and the colloquialisms. � The title page of this book does us want to belief that the commentary on these saucy poems was produced by the German scholar Kaspar Schoppe or Gaspar Scioppius or Schoppius 1576-1649. Schoppe was a scholar of critical acumen and wide reading but also shamelessly dishonest and vane. He converted to catholicism and 'distinguished himself by the virulence of his writings against the Protestants'. Wikipedia s.v. Caspar Schoppe He had loads of enemies among who the French classical scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger formerly his intimate friend. 'His literary feuds earned him the title of the snarling scholar the 'canis grammaticus'. Sandys 2363 Another formerly intimate friend of Schoppe the philologist and jurist Melchior Goldast 1578-1635 played a dirty trick on him by publishing this Priapeia in 1606 in Frankfurt under his name. Schoppe and Goldast had been friends during their study at the protestant university of Altdorf. Schoppe was of course compromised by the book for 'Europe's learned readers would now believe that he had really been poring over racy ancient poetry gazing out his window at mating sparrows his mind thoroughly occupied with pagan bawdry rather than Christan piety. . It was a thoroughly effective way to brand Schoppe as an eager consumer of pornography'. It is further assumed that the six letters concerning Cleopatra are also a product of Goldast's overheated imagination and humor. On the section title to the forged letters page 117 Goldast reveals his name where we read: 'in lucem prolatae ex Bibliotheca Melchioris Haiminsfeldii Goldasti'. Schoppe retaliated viciously upon this personal attack by his former friend in his 'Scaliger Hypobolimaeus' Suppositious Scaliger of 1607 where he reported 'that Goldast was dead broken on the wheel as a convicted murderer'. And this story struck uncomfortably close to home for Goldast's brother Sebastian had indeed been executed by this horrific means in Strasbourg in 1603 for killing a local woman. Informed that he had mistaken one Goldast brother for another which he must have known all along Schoppe seized the opportunity to add insult to injury by 'not giving up hope that one day Melchior would experience the same fate as his brother and rot on high rather than underground'. 'Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited' edited by M.M. Miles Berkeley 2011 p. 135/37. In this book a long discussion on the forged Cleopatra letters Goldast was of course embarrassed but he got his revenge for the Priapeia and the name of the devout Schoppe have stuck together ever since and did brand the Catholic apologist as a hypocrite and Pharisee for ever Provenance: on front flyleaf: 'Dr. Schwarz Berlin C'; armorial stamp on the verso of the 2nd title: 'Ex libris Dr. Schwarz ICti'. Iurisconsulti Collation: 8 A-L8 M4; 8 A-L8 leaf L8 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 130107

‎ARISTOTELES.‎

‎ARISTOTELOUS �THIK�N NIKOMACHEI�N biblia deka. Aristotelis De moribus ad Nicomachum libri decem. Ita Graecis interpretatione recenti cum Latinis coniunctis ut ferme singula singulis respondeant: in eorum gratiam qui Graeca cum Latinis comparare volunt.‎

‎Heidelberg Heidelbergae 1560. Colophon: 'Heidelbergae Excudebat Lodovicus Lucius Universitatis typographus Anno salutis humanae 1560 Mense Septembri 8vo. VIII567recte 5711 colophon4 blank p. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. 17.5 cm Ref: VD16 A 3403; Hoffmann 1291; Schweiger 152; cf. Dibdin 1326 & Moss 1126 for the edition of 1555; cf. Graesse 1212; Cranz A bibliography of Aristotle editions 1501-1600 no. 108.398; J. Lewis 'Adrien Turn�be 1512-1565 a humanist observed' Gen�ve 1998 p. 127/28 Details: Nice contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Back with 3 raised bands. Boards decorated with a row of blind-tooled rolls comprising floral motives and heads in medallions. The central panel is adorned with floral motives and palmets. The blind-stamped year 1565 or 1563 is vaguely visible at the bottom of the central panel on the upper board. Greek text with facing Latin translation printed in 2 columns Condition: Pigskin age-tanned worn and scuffed. Paper label at the head of the spine with a short title on it. Small damages to the pigskin. The clasps and catches are gone. Three small ownership inscriptions on the front endpapers. Two old initials in the lower margin of the title page. Small stamp on the verso of the title. A strip of the blank uppermargin of the title torn off without affecting the text. Some contemporary ink marginalia Note: The Greek scholar Aristotle 384-322 B.C. is one of the foremost names in the history of thought and perhaps the most influential of all who have ever written. His influence on Western science and culture is immense. Aristotle's treatise 'Nicomachean Ethics' is perhaps 'the greatest and most famous of all works on morals certainly the most notable exposition of Greek ethics. The title is derived from the name on Aristotle's son Nikomachos . It falls into ten books and its fundamental principle is the doctrine of the Mean according to which every virtue is a proper blend of two opposed and non-moral tendencies as courage of fear and daring and lies between two vices resulting from the exaggeration of one tendency or the other'. H.J. Rose 'A history of Greek literature' London 1965 p. 275/76 � This Heidelberg edition of 1560 is a reissue of an edition with the same title which was published in Paris in 1555 and edited by the French scholar Adrianus Turnebus Adrien Tourn�be 1512-1565 professor of Greek in that city and a specialist in Greek textual criticism. In the preface Adrianus Turnebus lectori to the 1555 edition repeated in this 1560 edition Turnebus declares that he edited the Nicomachean Ethics with the help of Pier Vettori's observations ex Petri Victorii observationibus and some very old manuscripts ex vetustis aliquot exemplaribus. He also realized that this Greek text should also be accessible to students of philosophy who knew only Latin. It was necessary therefore to correct and emend the Latin text. Because translators from Greek into Latin added always something of their own ideas to a translation de suo quaedam addentes or made the Latin text much longer by explaning paraphrases paraphrasibus Graeca explicantes it is not possible to bring the Latin translation into line with the original Greek text ut singula singulis responderent. To avoid an uneven division of the text and translation he thought it necessary to make a translation that connected the Latin translation to the Greek text Graeca & Latina coniungerentur. Adrianus Turnebus lectori page a2 recto & verso The Greek text of the edition of 1555 of Turnebus was based on the edition of 1547 which was published by the Italian scholar Pier Vettori in Florence Provenance: On the front pastedown a small name: 'Nagel'. � On the front flyleaf the ownership entry of: 'Daniel Walasser Giengensis'. Who this Daniel Walasser of Gien a French city in the department of Loiret was we could not find out. � On the same leaf also: 'Ex libris Jacobi Zenetti 1821'. The German 'Privatgelehrte und Schriftsteller' Jakob Zenetti 1801-1844 received his doctor's degree in 1829 at the University Ingolstadt-Landshut-M�nchen. He lived in Augsburg and seems to have been a philanthropist. The Zenettistreet in Augsburg is called after him. He wrote 'Einfluss der Philosophie auf das Leben' second edition Augsburg 1842 and some poetry e.g. 'Der �gyptische Joseph: in vier Ges�ngen' Augsburg 1843. � On the title below the imprint the initials D.W. � On the verso of the title a small and round stamp: 'Sammlung des Dr. Hans Hasso v. Veltheim'. In the centre of the stamp a coat of arms. Hans-Hasso Freiherr von Ludolf Martin Veltheim Ostrau 1885-1956 was a German Indologist anthroposophist Far East traveler occultist and author. He was of old Saxon nobility. He published several books about his travels through East Asia. See Wikipedia: 'Hans Hasso von Veltheim' Hasso was the owner of the barock castle 'Schloss Ostrau' in Ostrau near Halle Saale which he turned it into a meeting point of Anthroposophists from all over the world. After the Second World War he was expropriated. Part of his library and art collection was brought to the Martin-Luther-Universit�t Halle-Wittenberg the remaining was confiscated by the occupying forces of the Russians. See for this library Wikipedia: 'Schloss Ostrau' See for Hasso's portrait and death mask 'Google Images' Collation: 4 a-z8 A-M8 N4 O4 last 2 leaves blank the leaves d1 & d2 the page numbering is double Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 120139

‎APOLLONIUS RHODIUS.‎

‎Apollonii Rhodii Argonauticorum libri quatuor. Edidit nova fere interpretatione illustravit priorum editorum notas praecipuas selegit Sanctamandi nunquam prius editis nonnullas suas adjecit necnon indices tres addidit Joannes Shaw A.M. Coll. Beatae Mariae Magdalenae apud Oxonienses socius.‎

‎Oxford Oxonii E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1777. 4to. 2 volumes. Volume 1: XII4961 errata1 blank p.; Volume 2: II1291156 indices2 blank p. Contemporary calf. 28 cm. Ref: ESTC Citation No. T133192; Ebert 826; Graesse 1164; Hoffmann 1207/08; Dibdin 1276/77; Moss 168 Details: Backs gilt in a wave like pattern and with 5 raised bands. A shield in the 2nd and 4th compartment. Marbled endpapers. Volume 1 contains the Greek text followed by a Latin translation. Volume 2 contains the 'Scholia' p. 1/99 'Notae et Variae Lectiones' p. 101/129 an index on the Scholia and an 'index verborum' Condition: Bindings worn. Boards scuffed with some spots and scratches. Some leaves slightly yellowed occasional light foxing especially in the blank upper margins Note: The Greek poet Apollonius Rhodius was probably born on the island Rhodes ca. 295 B.C. At a young age he moved to Alexandria attracted as many others by the court of the Ptolemaei where he met the poet Callimachus. Biographic fiction has it that Apollonius' epic the 'Argonautica' was badly received in Alexandria at a recitation epideixis that he became an enemy of Callimachus and then retired to Rhodes where he revised the poem which made him famous. The fictional quarrel between both poets is probably an invention of the first biographer of Apollonius the grammarian Theon. 'Apollonius Rhodius Das Argonautenepos. Herausgegeben �bersetzt und erl�utert von R. Glei & S. Natzel-Glei' Darmstadt 1996 page XIII The 'Argonautica' is the only surviving posthomeric epic of the Alexandrian period and places Apollonius direct under the shadow of Homer. The poets modernity is his creation of a short epic of ca 5900 verses half the Odyssey. He also created a new hero type democratic and group oriented. A further innovation is the role of women in this epic which was traditionally men's business. He is the first to introduce a woman as a hero in an epic Medea and he 'erz�hlt die Ereignisse im wesentlichen aus ihrer Sicht eine psychologische Meisterleistung'. o.c. page XIV In Alexandrian style he delights in displaying his ethnographic erudition explaning names cults geography relics and habits. � The story of the Argonauts belongs to the oldest myths in Greek literature. It is supposed that Homer adopted elements of a prehomeric epic of the voyage of the Argonauts who sailed with Jason on the Argo to Colchis to secure the Golden Fleece. 'The story has been reworked by modern writers such as Robert Graves Hercules my Shipmate 1945 and John Gardner Jason and Medeia 1975 and there have been 2 films called Jason and the Argonauts 1963 and 2000'. The Classical tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 67 � This edition of 1777 was produced by the English scholar John Shaw 1750-1824 Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford who based his Apollonius on the previous Apollonius edition of Hoelzlin Leiden 1641. 'secutus sum Hoelzlinum' preface leaf b1 recto He proudly boasts that he has done more for the eludication of Apollonius than Hoelzlin. Shaw revised and updated also the literal wooden Latin translation by Johannes Hartung ille fidus adeo interpres of Basel 1550 often following him. nec interdum ab Hartungo mutuum accipere dedignatus sum The reader has he adds now a 'interpretationem fidam satis nec tamen ut spero prorsus inelegantem'. Idem leaf b1 verso Shaw also excerpted the earlier commentaries and notes of Hartung Henri Estienne 1574 Holstein and Hoelzlin. He also added the notes of one James St. Amand Jacobus Sanctamandus or Sanctus Amandus that he found in the Bodleian Library and the notes and explanations of the recently deceased Oxford scholar John Upton which he had jotted down in his copy of the 1574 edition of Henri Estienne. The notes of St. Amand are according to Hoffmann 'nicht wichtig'. St. Amand was born in 1687. He matriculated in 1703 and left Oxford without taking a degree. He died in 1754. John Upton 1707-1760 of Merton and Exeter College edited an Epictetus edition 1739-1741 Collation: Vol.1: a-c2 A-N2 P-5I2 5L-6L2 X1; Vol. 2: pi1 A-2B2 X2 2C2 2E2-4C2 leaf 4C2 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 152729

‎LIBRI DE RE RUSTICA.‎

‎Libri De Re Rustica a Nicolao Angelio viro consumatissimo nuper maxima diligentia recogniti & typis excusi cum indice & expositione omnium dictionum. Catonis Varronis Columellae Palladii quae aliqua enucleatione indigebant. Additis nuper commentariis Iunii Pompo. Fortunati in librum De cultu hortorum cum adnotationibus Philippi Beroaldi.‎

‎N.pl.Florence n.d. Colophon at the end: 'Florentiae per heredes Philippi Iuntae Anno Domini 1521 Die XXVIII. Mensis Septembris' 1521. 4to in 8s. 2 parts in 1 volume: XX218 recte 222;125 leaves. 19th century half vellum 22 cm. Ref: Edit 16 28760; Schweiger 21305/06; Renouard 'Annales des Imprimeries des Alde' 'Notice sur la famille des Iunte' p. XLVI; Adams S807; Ebert 20736; Brunet 5246; Graesse 6/1331 Details: 19th century binding with short title on the back and marbled boards. Good quality white paper. Some text diagrams. Iunta's printer's device on the verso of the last leaf Condition: Some wear to the extremities. Small wormhole in the right upper corner of the first leaf. Old ownership entry below the printer's device. Small booklabel on front pastedown. A small pinpoint wormhole in the upper margin of the last 8 leaves pinpoint wormhole in the inner margins of the gatherings l and m. Some old ink underlinings 2 old ink annotations. Small rust hole in the upper corner of leaf 175. Some slight foxing and soiling of the paper. Small stain in the upper margins of 2 gatherings. The gatherings collate correctly. The page numbering of the second part has some irregularities but is alltogether correct Note: This Italian edition of the Libri de Re Rustica first published by Philip Junta in Florence in 1515 gives us the works of four Roman gentlemen-farmers and landowners Cato Varro Columella and Palladius who wrote about agriculture and were also successful practical farmers. As a cultural movement the Italian Renaissance was the product of the aristocracy and the ruling elite. The greater part of the populace were still rural peasants. Most of them worked on private farms or were tenants who shared the crops with their landowners. The urban elite of this time turned themselves into landed aristocracy owning large villa-farms. Capital produced by commercial and trading activities was invested in land. 'It was particularly in the Florence area that this bourgeois colonization of the surrounding countryside coincided with the development of a trading economy'. G. Gobbi Sicap 'The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society' Abingdon New York 2007 p. 11 Land and a house in the country lent prestige. 'A landlord of this period who had entrusted his property to a share-cropper frequently visited his lands and oversaw every activity that took place keeping an eye on the stables and cellars and taking charge of the sale of the produce; he thus appeared to participate fully in farming life' Idem p. 14 Thus the residential extra-urban villas of the 'signori' became 'of central importance to the development of the newly-dawning Renaissance culture' Idem p. 15 The rediscovery of classical authors in the early days of humanism provided important confirmation of these aspirations. 'The 'Rei rusticae scriptores' who now took the stage - including the Romans Cato Varro Columella the 'rusticus' Palladio . provided further food for thought adding value to the literary notion of a house in the country as a refuge corresponding to the classical 'topos' of the joys of country life and the practical and educational concept of farming as the purpose and 'magistra of life'. The ideology of the paired words 'utilitas-delectatio' a humanist concept dates back to classical times and appears in the works of the most authoritative Latin writers including Cicero Seneca and Pliny'. Idem p. 19 � The aim of Cato Varro and Columella was to bring Roman farming of their time on a higher level. The conjunction of these three didactic texts can be found from the Middle Ages. They were jointly published for the first time in 1472 in Venice and form the chief texts on agriculture and rural life in antiquity. The oldest of the trio is the Roman politician Marcus Porcius Cato 234-149 B.C. the source of famous maxims for orators like 'rem tene verba sequentur'. In style and in character he was a typical farmer shrewd hardworking frugal honest sincere but limited. His 'De re rustica' also known as 'De agri cultura' is a kind of commonplace book. It gives us a view of the life of an oldfashioned landowner in that age and offers information on Roman cult and rustic folklore. The second work was written by possibly the greatest scholar Rome produced Marcus Terentius Varro 116-27 B.C. Of the mass of works he wrote only one is preserved to us completely 'De re rustica'. He was a landowner on a large scale who wrote the book in his eightieth year annus octogesimus he tells us in the beginning 'ut sarcinas colligam ante quam profiscar e vita'. It is a philosophic dialogue in 3 books in which he gives sound and practical advice for managing a farm I a stock-ranch II poultry aviary and herb-garden III. 'While giving interesting information on the state of agriculture at that time it is withal a pleasantly discursive book the work of a garrulously entertaining old scholar' H.J. Rose 'A Handbook of Latin Literature' London 1967 p. 222. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella was a contemporary of Seneca. He wrote his 'De re rustica' consisting of 12 books ca. 60-65 A.D. He was a practical farmer on a large scale who was concerned over the decline of the agriculture in his days. 'Book 1 deals with general matters of buildings and labour 2 with soils and crops 3-5 with vines olives and fruittrees 6-7 with domestic animals 8 with poultry and fishponds 9 with game and bees 10 in verse with gardening 11 with the bailiff's duties and the farmer's calendar 12 with the bailiff's wife's duties'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 268 A separate book on arboriculture part of a larger work survives too. His style is straitforward and pleasant. The late antique Roman author Palladius ca. 400 who also seems to have been a landowner produced a kind of abridgment of Columella. � The texts of these four were edited we are told in the preface by the Florentine classical scholar Nicolaus Angelius Buccinensis Niccol� degli Angeli or Angelio Bucinense or Bucinensis who produced many editions for Giunta e.g. of Plautus Terentius and Nemensianus. Nicol� degli Angeli was professor of Latin & Greek in Florence. 'vir de utraque lingua benemeritus' p. AA1 verso He was born in Bucine in 1448 and died ca. 1529 Provenance: The provenance of this book is dealt with in a longer article than usual because it sheds some interesting light on the English booktrade in the first half of the 20th century and on the history of a Russian refugee family. The search for information about previous owners often brings the antiquarian bookseller to unexpected places in this case to a beautiful portrait of a young woman a masterpiece of the Russian painter Kardovsky. And it sometimes occurs that the offspring of a former owner kindly offers to provide supplementary information. � On the front pastedown of this book has been pasted a booklabel in Russian and in English: 'ex libris Boris Alexandrovitch Chroustchoff'. In the 'Guggenheim Museum collection: paintings 1880-1945' we found at first the following concerning the provenance of a painting of the mother of Boris Alexandrovitich Chroustchoff Marya Anastasievna Chroustchova made by the Russian painter Dimitry Kardovsky 1900: 'Biographical information . is fragmentary. According to their son the late Boris Chroustchoff who was in correspondence with J. J. Sweeney in 1959-60 his parents owned a large estate in southern Russia as well as a house in Munich and one in St. Prex near Geneva. . Boris Chroustchoff adds that his father was 'a very great friend of Kandinsky and other members of the Blaue Reiter school especially Javlensky. Both Kandinsky and Javlensky often used to stay with us in the Ukraine and were constant visitors when we lived in Munich. Our house was always full of painters who found a very good subject in my mother. In fact Javlensky painted a very fine portrait of her in a red dress which has now disappeared' letters of December 27 1959 and January 10 1960. The attribution to Javlensky is incorrect. It was Kardovsky Marya Anastasievna and Alexander were separated in 1901. She returned to Russia with her daughter who died soon afterwards and Marya herself apparently perished during the Revolution. Alexander remained in Western Europe with his son Boris and they moved to England. . Boris' 'father Alexander took the portrait with him to England where it hung in their house in Harrow-on-the-Hill until 1908 when it apparently disappeared correspondence with the Museum 1960. Whether it was actually stolen or whether it was sold remains to be established. Boris Chroustchoff has since died and further information has not hitherto been discovered'. � In January 2020 we received in an email supplementary information about the owner of this book and about the painting of Kardovsky from the daughter of Boris Chroustchoff Natasha de Chroustchoff offspring from his second marriage who is living in Great Britain. She wrote us that Boris Chroustchoff 1892-1968 'was a very interesting but elusive man whose name can be found mentioned en passant in the lives of others with stronger claims to fame'. His father Alexander sent him to an English public school Harrow in 1906. He also bought a house in the vicinity of the school where the portrait of Marya Anastasievna Chroustchova hung on the stairs. After he left school in 1909 he lost sight of the painting of his mother. His daughter Natascha de Chroustoff writes that possibly Boris' stepmother was not prepared to give it room in their house. � After his studies Boris learned the trade from the wellknown London bookseller Irving Davis and the Italian bookseller Guiseppe Pino Orioli who set up a bookshop 'Davis & Orioli' in Museum Street in 1913. Davis died in 1967. Orioli had learned in his turn the trade from the notorious antiquarian bookseller Voynich of the famous Voynich Manuscript. 'In the early 1920s Boris with his friend and business partner Lionel Jellinek opened the Salamander Bookshop in Silverstreet now Barter Street in Bloomsbury London' Natasha informs us. The shop was named after the Croustchoff family crest. Young Boris was the bibliographic expert. 'He specialised in medicine natural history cookery and Russica with a particular interest in incunabulae'. I writes Natasha 'believe they did pretty well until the Wall Street crash of 1929'. 'There are stories about the rather eccentric manner in which my father conducted his affairs: snatching a book out of a potential customer's hand because he didn't like the look of him and so on'. Boris compiled for his own bookshop 5 catalogues which were considered exemplary. � The painting of his mother popped up in the Guggenheim Museum that acquired it from the German art dealer Otto Stangl in 1950. In 1999 Nathasha was allowed to see the painting in the Guggenheim Museum where it was held in depot. In May 2015 Sotheby's in New York auctioned this painting. It was sold with the incomprehensible wisdom of the Museum to benefit the Museums' acquisition fund. Its location now cannot be traced. sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.86.html/2015/impressionist-modern-art-n09354 See for this portrait also Wikipedia's article on Kardovsky � Under printer's device in old ink: 'A Fabii Astinea'. � On the pastedown also the name of the next owner 'V.E. Watts'. One V.E. Watts produced a Penguin translation of Boethius 'The Consolation of Philosophy' Collation: AA-8 BB-12; a - z-8 &-8 -8 R-8; Aa-8 Bb-6 A-10 B - O-8 P-12; pagination: 20218; 1-20 235-238 4 leaves 24-34 249-254 & 215-216 2 leaves 43-76 291-294 4 leaves 81-125 For 4to in 8s see Gaskell p. 106 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 130102

‎CORPUS POETARUM LATINORUM UNO VOLUMINE ABSOLUTUM.‎

‎Cum selecta varietate lectionis et explicatione brevissima edidit Guilielmus Ernestus Weber Philosophiae Doctor Lycei Bremensis Director atque Professor.‎

‎Frankfurt Francofurti ad Moenum Sumptibus et Typis Henrici Ludovici Broenneri 1833. LXXXIIII14193 p. Contemporary calf. 26 cm Ref: Spoelder p. 507 Arnhem 3 Details: Prize copy with the prize dated 13 July 1850 awarded by the 'Scholarchae' of the Gymnasium of Arnhem to 'Ingenuo bonaque spei juveni Johanni Henrico Andr� dela Porte' and signed by 6 curators and by the Rector J.W. Elink Sterk Not much is known about Johannes Hendrikus Andr� de la dela Porte 1831-1889. He was born in Arnhem and died there. His family belonged to the local elite. Binding slightly scuffed. Back and boards gilt gilt coat of arms of Arnhem on both boards Condition: foxed throughout occasionally browning Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 156957

‎CATO.‎

‎Dionysii Catonis Disticha de moribus ad filium. Cum notis integris Scaligeri Barthii Daumii; scholiis atque animadversionibus selectis Erasmi Opitii Wachii; et metaphrasi graeca Planudis et Scaligeri. Quibus accedunt Boxhornii dissertatio et Henrici Cannegieteri rescripta Boxhornio de Catone; nec non Joan. Hild. Withofii Dissertationes binae de distichorum auctore et vera illorum lectione. Recensuit suasque adnotationes addidit Otto Arntzenius. Editio altera auctior & emendatior.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Ex officina Schouteniana 1754. 8vo. LXXVI including frontispiece57836 index2 blank p. Contemporary vellum. 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 191502472; Schweiger 270: 'Der Herausgeber hat seine eigenen Anmerkungen sehr vermehrt'; Brunet 11668; Graesse 282; Ebert 3736: 'A new recension from MSS. and old editions' Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Boards with gilt borders and corner pieces; gilt floral motives in the centre of them. Frontispiece designed and engraved by S. Fokke it depicts the goddess Athena in full armour sitting on a cloud; at her feet 3 putti bent over a copy of the 'Catonis Disticha'. Title printed in red & black Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Gilt on the back gone. All 4 ties also gone Note: 'The Distichs of Cato Latin: 'Catonis Disticha' form a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown author named Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Cato was the most popular medieval schoolbook for teaching Latin praised not only as a Latin textbook but as a moral compass. Cato was in common use as a Latin teaching aid all the way to the 18th century . It was one of the best-known books in the Middle Ages and was translated into many languages'. Wikipedia s.v. 'Distichs of Cato' � This volume on offer is the second revised and augmented edition; Arntzenius published his first edition in 1735. The second edition contains several 'praefationes' the Latin text accompanied by the opposing translations into Greek by Planudes and Scaliger a very extensive commentary and 'variantes lectiones'; the last 228 pages are filled with dissertations on the 'Catonis Disticha' by the Dutchmen Boxhorn Cannegieter and the German Withof 2. The edition was produced by the Dutch schoolmaster Otto Arntzenius 1703-1763 Conrector of the 'Schola Latina' in Utrecht 1728 Rector in Gouda 1737 in Delft 1741 in Amsterdam 1745. NNBW 1180/81 The Dutch linguist Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius 'Professor Eloquentiae' at the University of Leiden from 1632 tried to prove in his dissertation that the author of the Catonis Disticha was a late antique christian. Boxhornius' Diss. p. 357: 'Aliter ego sentio & omnino credo Autorem fuisse Christianum' The Dutch classical scholar and historian Hendrik Cannegieter on the other hand attacked Boxhorn and tried to prove that the work was composed by a pagan author who lived before the time of Constantine the Great say 310 A.D. Cannegieter's Diss. p. 381: 'mox enim docebimus non ab homine Christiano sed Pagano conscriptum esse'. And: Idem p. 436: 'vixisse ante Constantinum' The German 'Professor Historiae' at Duisburg Johannes Hildebrandus Withofius supposed that the author lived before the emperor Valentinianus I whose reign began in 364 A.D. Withof's Diss. I p.518: 'ante Valentiniani Primi tempora vixisse' Collation: -48 56; A-2P8 2Q4 leaf 2Q4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 130093

‎CAESAR.‎

‎C. Julii Caesaris quae exstant omnia. Ex recensione Joannis Davisii Coll. Regin. Cantab. Socii cum ejusdem animadversionibus ac notis Pet. Ciacconii Fr. Hotomanni Joan. Brantii Dionys. Vossii et aliorum. Accessere metaphrasis graeca librorum VII de Bello Gallico nec non indices necessarii.‎

‎Cambridge Cantabrigiae Typis academicis Impensis Joannis Oweni Typographi 1706. 4to. IV7515 addenda;9634 index2 blank p. 1 folding engraved plate & 2 folding engraved maps. Vellum 22 cm Ref: ESTC Citation No. T136450; 245/46: 'neue Recognition. D. benutzte 1 Handschrift und �ltere Ausgaben'; Dibdin 1361; Moss 1234; Brunet 11456; Fabricius/Ernesti 1263; Graesse 27/8; Ebert 3276 Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Blindtooled boards. Title in red & black. Good quality white paper. The plate depicts the construction of a bridge across the Rhine. The maps show Gallia and the Mediterranean world Condition: Back soiled. Shield on the back half gone. Boards slightly scratched & spotted. Right lower corner slightly waterstained. 3 ownership entries on the front flyleaf Note: Throughout the 17th and 18th century in Europe the Roman historian and politician Julius Caesar 100-44 B.C. remained central to the education of the sons of the elite who trained for public life. He figured as an exemplary military leader. The politician and then tyrant Caesar however was also controversial in Europe that was torn apart by bloody religious and civil wars. His dictatorship remained problematic though some justified his usurpation of power as the only way out of turmoils of the Roman republic. � This Caesar was edited by the English scholar John Davis 1679-1732 who was a friend of Richard Bentley. He edited besides Caesar Minucius Felix & Maximus Tyrius and made his mark as a commentator of the philosophical works of Cicero. Sandys II412 Provenance: In ink: 'sum ex libris N.L. v. Scheltinga'. see the following name: � 'F. v. Aylva v. Pallandt' 1845'. This book once belonged to Frederik Willem Jacob baron van Aylva van Pallandt 1826-1906 who was the son of Hans Willem baron van Aylva van Pallandt van Waardenburg en Neerijnen and of Constantia Catharina Wilhelmina van Scheltinga. The young baron will have received this book from one of the relatives of his mother. He married in 1856 Anna Frederika Everdine baronesse van Goltstein. The couple remained childless. � The book remained in the family with its next owner 'E. van Pallandt'. His/her initials are illegible See NNBW 9746 and 9749/50 Collation: 2 A-5B4 5C2; a-q4 r2 leaf r2 blank; map after 2 and 337 plate after 122 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 130096

‎CORONELLI V.‎

‎Memorie istoriografiche de Regni della Morea Negroponte e littorali fin'a Salonichi. Accresciute in questa seconda edizione. Nel Laboratorio del P.M. Coronelli Cosmog. Della Ser. Republica di Venezia. Con privilegio dell'Ecc.mo Senato per anni XXV si vende alla Libraria del Colosso sul Ponte di Rialto.‎

‎Venice 1686. 8vo. XII2371 blank2 index2 blank p. engraved title 41 maps city and landscape views plans and plates. Contemporary interim boards. 17 cm Ref: W. Goffart 'Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years 1570-1870' London/Chicago 2003 no. 689; Graesse 2273 Details: Engraved programmatic title page it depicts the Venetian Lion seizing a fallen Turkish warrior by the throat. Woodcut initials. As is often the case with Coronelli's works difficulties of plate collation arise: 'The plates in any work of Coronelli present a problem as he added and substracted or changed plates as he saw fit'. 'The Library of Henry Myron Blackmer II' London 1989 p. 37 Our copy has all the 39 plates which the index calls for plus 2 extra plates of the 'Battaglia sotto Zamara' and of the 'Citta di Atene'. The very first plate shows a throned 'Venetia Triumphans' who destroys with the help of Neptunus the fleet of the Turks. The work contains also a general map with the Peloponnese Attica and the Aegean islands. � The index leaf ch1 is bound in our copy erroneously as the catchword indicates at the end after gathering P. It should have been bound at the end of the preliminary leaves before gathering A Condition: Binding scuffed. Head of the spine slightly damaged. Some old names on the front endpapers and the front flyleaf. Wormhole in the last 10 leaves nibbling at some letters and leaving a small hole in the last plate a view of the 'Golfo di Lepanto'. Some small wormholes in the pastedowns and flyleaves Note: The Kingdom of the Morea 'was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece when it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War better-known as the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War in 1684-99.' The kingdom was lost again to the Turcs in a brief campaign in 1715. 'Venice had a long history of interaction with the Morea dating back to the 4th Crusade 1203-1204 when the Republic acquired control of the coastal fortresses of Modon and Coron Nafplio and Argos. These they held even after the remainder of the peninsula was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1460 but they were lost in the first second and third Ottoman-Venetian Wars.' In 1684 following the Ottoman defeat at the second Siege of Vienna Venice declared war on the Ottoman Empire taking advantage of its weakness. In the next 2 years they took control of the whole peninsula and its fortresses. A subsequent Venetian campaign into eastern Continental Greece succeeded in capturing Athens but failed before the walls of Chalkis Negroponte'. Source Wikipedia 'Kingdom of the Morea' � Together with the troops the Venetians sent to the Peloponnes the Franciscan friar and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli 1650-1718 who was appointed in 1685 official Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice to bear witness of their victories and to visually record the newly conquered territories in order to produce a fitting public memorial of the greatness of Venice. He made the maps plans and views primarily for propagandic and military purposes but he also succeeded in raising this functional work to the status of visual art. � Already in 1686 our cosmographer published the results in a 'Memorie istoriographiche' describing the initial phase of the reconquest of the Peloponnese. This small octavo edition is called on the title the second edition. This is because Coronelli considered the more expensive folio edition of this work which appeared also in 1686 as the first edition. 16 double-page plates of the large folio edition were reengraved in reduced size for this octavo edition. The views and plans which were printed in the text of the folio edition at the beginning of a chapter are printed in this octavo edition as separate plates. Coronelli's work was during the next 2 years translated into German English and French. � Coronelli one of the first Europeans to depict the Peloponnese is nowadays best known for his atlasses and for the huge globes he produced for King Louis XIV of France. He also created the first encyclopaedia in Italian; the 'Biblioteca universale sacro-profana'. It was published in Venice but remained incomplete. Only the first 7 of the 45 volumes appeared. This work is considered a model for the French Encyclopaedists Provenance: Polish provenance. The Kingdom Poland and the Republic of Venice had a common ennemy in the last quarter of the 17th century the Ottoman empire. The Poles fought against them in Central Europe and the Venetians in the Balkans and the Mediterranean. They both tried to expand their territorial gains against the weakened Turcs. So it is no surprise that a Polish nobleman and diplomat was possibly the first owner of this book. � On the front flyleaf: 'Jan Wielopolski'. This may well be the Polish nobleman politician and diplomat Count Jan Wielopolski ca. 1630-1688 General governor of Krak�w since 1667 Deputy Chancellor of the Crown since 1677 and Grand Chancellor of the Crown since 1678. See his Wikipedia article. 'Zwloki jego spoczely w podziemiach kosciola sw. Kazimierza' translated by Google as 'His corpse was buried in the basement of Church of St. Casimir the Prince at Krakow � On the half title an inscription with a Polish name: 'Ad usum Fr. Valeriani Szembek . Conventus S. Francisci'. This Valerianus Szembek may have been a Franciscan frater who lived in the monastery next to the Church of St. Casimir in Krakow. In the catacombs have been buried the remains of many monks and members of Polish noble families such as Wielopolski and Szembek. Members of the Szembek family served the Church as cardinals and bishops. � On the front pastedown an illegible inscription which starts with the name Bielski.� On the front flyleaf also the name J.C. Mork. � On the flyleaf at the end something like 'Zychwy Slgo' Collation: pi6 A-P8 minus blank leaf P8 chi2 leaf chi2 blank Both leaves of gathering chi count as leaves pi7 and pi8 see our paragraph 'details' Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 156289

‎WYTTENBACH D.‎

‎Bibliotheca critica.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Apud Petrum Den Hengst 1779 - 1808. 8vo. 12 parts in 3 volumes: I: IIVI1311 blank4 advertisement; II140; IV140; II140 p. II: XII134; II140; II142; II152 p. III: IIXIV130; II140; IIXXXVIII1791 blank; LXXIV22431 blank p. Half calf. 23 cm Ref: STCN ppn 301147841; Graesse 6/2481; Ebert 24057; Brunet 51487 Details: Backs ruled gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red and green morocco shield in the 2nd and 3rd compartment Condition: Bindings worn especially at the extremes Note: Daniel Albert Wyttenbach is today considered one of the most influential humanists of the 18th century. He was a worthy successor of the great scholars Hemsterhuis Valckenaer and Ruhnken. 'Wyttenbach's academic fame and merits lie in the area of Greek philology as he is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Greek philological scholarship. He developed and set new standards regarding the study of grammar syntax and styles as well as in the interpretation and translation of Greek classical texts. His philosophical views were committed to the principles of humanism and Enlightenment. . His edition of the 'Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia' became a standard text for students and scholars of his time and many generations after'. H.F. Klemme & Manfred Kuehn 'The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers' London 2016 p. 871 � Daniel Wytttenbach was born at Bern in Switzerland in 1746 offspring of an old-established Swiss family of scholars and theologians. In Marburg and G�ttingen he discovered his passion for the Greek classics. He came to Holland in 1770 to study classics under the most famous classical philologists of that time Tiberius Hemsterhuis Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer and David Ruhnken. He graduated in 1771 and shortly after became professor at the college of the Remonstrants at Amsterdam. He occupied this post for eight years and in this period the first part of the Classical Review 'Bibliotheca Critica' to which he was the principal contributor appeared. From 1779 he was professor at the precursor of the University of Amsterdam the Athenaeum Illustre where he taught history and Greek and Latin literature. He held this professorship until 1799 and then returned to Leyden as Ruhnken's successor for 17 years. He published an edition of the Moralia of Plutarchus with Latin translation 1795-1806 a work of permanent value. On the death of Ruhnken he became the most influential classical scholar in the Netherlands. Ruhnken was immortalized by him in: 'Vita Davidis Ruhnkenii' Leiden & Amsterdam 1799. About this biography Sandys observes: 'The highest praise must be assigned to his 'Life of Ruhnken' a work of absorbing interest to his scholarly contemporaries which still retains its importance as a comprehensive picture of the Scholarship of the Netherlands and not of the Netherlands alone in the age of Ruhnken'. Sandys 2465. Wyttenbach died in 1820 Collation: Volume 1 pars 1: 4 A-H8 I2 leaf I2 verso blank �2 advertisement of Petrus den Hengst pars 2: pi2 leaf pi1 blank A-H8 I6; pars 3: pi2 leaf pi1 blank A-H8 I6; pars 4: pi1 A-H8 I6. Volume 2 pars 5: pi2 8 minus blank leaves 6/8 A-H8 I4 leaf I4 blank; pars 6: pi2 leaf p1 blank A-H8 I6; pars 7: pi1 A-I8 minus blank leaf I8; pars 8: pi1 A-L8 K4. Volume 3 pars 9: 8 A-H8 I1; pars 10: pi1 A-I8 minus blank leaves I7 & I8; pars 11: pi1 -28 33 A-L8 M2 leaf M2 verso blank; pars 12: pi1 -48 56; A-O8 P2 leaf P2 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 156869

‎HIPPOCRATES.‎

‎Hippocratis Coi Medicorum omnium facile principis Liber secundus de morbis vulgaribus difficilimus & pulcherrimus; olim a Galeno commentariis illustratus qui temporis iniuria interciderunt nunc vero pene in integrum restitutus commentariis sex & latinitate donatus Anutio Fo�sio Mediomatrico Medico authore. Ad Carolum Lotharingium Lotharingiae Ducem illustrissimum.‎

‎Basel Basileae 1560. Colophon at the end: 'Excudebat Iacobus Parcus expensis viduae M. Isingrinei anno 1560 mense martio 8vo. LVI5011 blank16 p. Pigskin over wooded boards. 17.5 cm 'Interesting text with an interesting provenance' Ref: VD16 H 3797; Maloney & Savoie no. 369; not in Ebert Graesse or Brunet Details: Back with 4 raised bands. The boards are decorated with blind stamped triple fillet borders and a row consisting of floral motives and some tiny portraits; the central panel of the boards shows palmet motives. 4 contemporary brass clasps on the outer edge of the covers. Woodcut initials. Each chapter contains the Greek text followed by a Latin translation and a extensive commentary. Good quality paper Condition: Pigskin soiled and slightly stained. The back shows craquelure. The lower corners are somewhat abraded. Front joint starting to split at the foot of spine. The clasps of the catches are gone and have been replaced by two strips of leather. Flyleaf at the end gone. Bookplate pasted on the inside of the upper board Note: The Greek physician Hippocrates 460-370 B.C. is known as the father of medicine and was the first epidemiologist. He sought a logic to sickness and attempted to explain disease occurrence from a rational perspective rather than a supernatural basis. In his day people generally thought that one was sick because of the gods. Hippocrates was the first to examine the relationships between the occurrence of disease and environmental influences and human behaviour. The distinction between 'epidemic' and 'endemic' was drawn by Hippocrates to distinguish between diseases that are 'visited upon' a population epidemic i.e diseases that seem to appear and disappear over time from those that 'reside within' a population endemic a disease specific to one location The treatise 'Epidemics' consists of seven books. Each book contains in addition to the case histories two other types of material: constitutions and generalizations aphorisms prognostic indications lists of things to consider various notes � This is the fist work of Anuce Fo�s Anutius Foesius 1528-1595 an edition of the second book of the 'Epidemics' de morbis vulgaribus it includes a Latin translation and an extensive commentary. Fo�s studied medicine at Paris and returned to his native city Metz to become city physician. He worked 8 years on this book he tells in the 'praefatio'. This was the beginning of a lifelong dedication to Hippocrates and scholarship. After more than 30 years of hard work Fo�s produced in 1595 the Hippocrates edition which was to remain the best edition of the Greek text and Latin translation for 250 years. It was only surpassed by the edition of Littr� of 1839/61. The edition of Fo�s shows profound criticism and has learned commentaries; his variant readings are numerous and well chosen Provenance: The engraved bookplate belongs to the German author and philosopher Ernst J�nger 1895 - 1998. The manuscript text on the bookplate reads: 'F�r Gerhard Nebel zum Geburtstage. Ernst J�nger 26-9-1948'. Ernst J�nger was a highly decorated German soldier and author who became famous for his World War I memoir 'In Stahlgewittern' Storm of Steel. J�nger rebelled against an affluent upbringing and sought adventure in the Wandervogel movement before running away to briefly serve in the French Foreign Legion an illegal act. Because he escaped prosecution in Germany due to his father's efforts J�nger was able to enlist on the outbreak of war in 1914. In the aftermath of World War II J�nger was treated with some suspicion as a possible fellow traveler of the Nazis. By the latter stages of the Cold War his unorthodox writings about the impact of materialism in modern society were widely seen as conservative rather than radical nationalist and his philosophical works came to be highly regarded in mainstream German circles. J�nger ended his long life as a honoured establishment figure although critics continued to charge him with the glorification of war as a transcending experience. � Gerhard Nebel 1903-1974 was a German author and conservative cultural critic. He studied philosophy and classical philology in Freiburg Marburg and Heidelberg from 1923 to 1927. He took his doctor's degree in Heidelberg in 1927 with a dissertation 'Plotins Kategorien der intelligibelen Welt'. Nebel was drafted into the Luftwaffe and worked as a translator in Paris in 1941 where he met Ernst J�nger. After the war he worked again as a teacher. He published his diaries and the essay collections 'Von den Elementen' and 'Tyrannis und Freiheit'. Nebel was highly influenced by J�nger to whom he dedicated his first books. In 1948 appeared his 'Ernst J�nger und das Schicksal des Menschen' followed by 'Ernst J�nger Abenteuer des Geistes' 1949 in which he offered an interpretation of J�nger's work. The correspondence between the two men was published in 2003 Source for J�nger and Nebel Wikipedia Collation: alpha8 beta8 gamma8 delta4; a-z8 A-I8 K4 minus blank leaf K4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 130092

‎ARRIANUS.‎

‎Arriani Nicomedensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem et Historia Indica graec. et lat. cum annotationibus et indice graeco locupletissimo Georgii Raphelii. Accedunt Eclogae Photii ad Arrianum pertinentes cum lectionibus variantibus Dav. Hoeschelii summaria librorum distincta & emendata index rerum accuratissimus nec non tabula geographica Expeditionis Alexandri.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Wetstenium 1757. 8vo. XLVIII637211 p. frontispiece folding map of Europe and the Orient. Vellum 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 212310364; Hoffmann 1377; Brunet 1497; Dibdin 1329: 'An excellent and commodious edition'; Moss 1188; Graesse 1227; Ebert 1236 Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece by I.K. Philips in Greek letters depicting an armed and winged Nike crushing 3 ennemies a black African an Asian and a European; in the air flies Fama with her trumpet. Title in red & black. Printer's mark on the title depicting a hand sharpening a chisel on a whetstone the motto is: 'Terar dum prosim'. The map is executed by N. Frankendaal. The text is printed in 2 columns Greek and Latin side by side Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and wrinkled at the top of the spine. Paper clipping on Nicomedia from 'The Gentleman's Magazine' Vol. 98 1828 Supplement part 1 p. 627 tipped in on front pastedown. Old & legible ink annotations on the front flyleaf. Rear endpapers stained and its pastedown is detached. Paper yellowing Note: This edition of Arrianus is more or less a 'parergon' of the German Lutheran theologian Georg Raphel latinized as Georgius Raphelius 1673 - 1740. He was 'Pfarrer' and Superintendent of the St. Nicolai church and Inspector of the 'Scholae Johannaeae' at Luneburg. His interest in pagan antiquity and in the New Testament generated a series of works in which he compared the language and style of the New Testament with works of ancient historians. In 1709 he published in Hamburg 'Annotationes Philologicae in N.T. ex Xenophonte collectae'. In 1715 appeared also in Hamburg 'Annotationes Philologicae in N.T. ex Polybio & Arriano collectae'. He published in L�neburg in 1731 'Annotationes in S. Scripturam ex Herodoto collectae'. In 1710 Raphel had published a German translation of the Indica of Arrian 'Arriani Indica d.i. Indianische Geschichte oder Reisebeschreibung der Flotte Alexanders des Grossen aus dem Griechischen ins Deutsche �bersetzt'. The three 'Annotationes Philologicae' were reprinted together in Leiden in 1747. This edition contains an extensive biography of Raphel with at the end a list of his published works and a short list of not yet published work: 'Scripta Rapheliana in MSC. adhuc latentia'. One of these 'scripta latentia' is 'Annotationes in Arrianum'. In the preface Lectori to our edition of Arrianus of 1757 the publisher Wetstein tells us that this manuscript with notes on Arrianus had lain tucked away ever since 1709 in a drawer 'in privatis scriniis'. p. X It had been offered in the meantime to German publishers who however feared that they would not make a penny from it. Wetstein tells us that finally the son-in-law of Raphel one Conr. Arn. Schmid whom Ebert erroneously considers to be the editor asked him to publish this work of his beloved and admired father-in-law. Raphel not only produced the annotations but had made also a careful recension of the Greek text especially with the help the new edition of the Leiden professor of Greek Jacobus Gronovius who had discovered a new important manuscript of Arrian. 'textum quam potuit accuratissime castigavit adjutus praesertim libris MSS a Jac. Gronovio consultis'. Preface p. VIII. The manuscript of Raphel contained also a corrected Latin translation. 'versionemque permultis locis pravam elegantissime correxit'. Idem ibidem Wetstein probably here refers to the Latin translation of Bonventura Vulcanius which was printed in the 1704 edition of Gronovius. Wetstein ends with the assurance that all lovers of literature will thank the son-in-law for his troubles. � Raphel is also known for this pioneering work on deaf-muteness. Three of his children were deaf and dumb. 'Paternal affection had inspired him with zeal and skill in their instruction and in 1718 he published for the benefit of others the result of his labours' 'Die Kunst Taube und Stumme reden zu lehren am Exempel seiner eigenen Tochter'. It is said that his eldest daughter spoke so well that her deficiency was hardly noticed. The girl died however 20 years old Provenance: On the front flyleaf at the head of the manuscript notes the name 'Mitford' and 'White' Collation: -38; A-2S8 2T-3Q4 3R8 3S4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎MEURSIUS J.‎

‎Ioannis Meursii Reliqua Attica; sive ad librum De populis Atticae Paralipomena. Liber singularis. Cui accedit Auctarium ex Itinerario de Pagis Atticis Jacobi Sponii. Bound with: Ioannis Meursii Theseus sive de ejus vita rebusque gestis liber postumus. Accedunt ejusdem Paralipomena de Pagis Atticis et Excerpta ex v.cl. Jacobi Sponii Itinerario de iisdem pagis. And with: Ioannis Meursii Themis Attica sive De legibus Atticis libri II.‎

‎Ad 1 & 2: Utrecht Ultrajecti Apud Franciscum Halma 1684. 3: Utrecht Trajecti ad Rhenum Apud Joannem vande Water Joannem Ribbium Franciscum Halma 1685. 4to. 3 volumes in 1: 528 index40; VIII13612 index; IV15220 index p. Vellum 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 066811074; STCN ppn 066811007; STCN ppn 840519370; Haitsma Mulier/Van der Lem 334u & 334t Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Short title calligraphed with black ink on the back. Title of 'Theseus' printed in red & black. Emblematic woodcut printer's device on the third title depicting Ceres and Athena labour and science the motto is: 'vivitur in genio' 'only through his genius man survives' Condition: Vellum slightly soiled Note: The Dutch classicist and historian Johannes Meursius Johannes van Meurs 1579-1639 was professor of History and Greek in the university of Leiden from 1610 till 1620. He studied under the genius J.J. Scaliger and is best known for the 'editiones principes' of a number of Byzantine authors he produced and the 'editio princeps' of the 'Elementa Harmonica' of Aristoxenus 1616. He edited also the 'Timaeus' of Plato with the commentary and translation of Chalcidius 1617. Meursius' indefatigable labours concerned also the history of ancient Greece and especially Eleusis and the antiquities of Athens and Attica. His work was widely used as a source by later ancient historians. Nothing that related to the history of Athens he left untouched law government festivals institutions manners literature religion etc. The dazzling variety of titles of part of his pioneering work seems almost to exhaust the subject 'ancient Athens': De populis Atticae 1616 Atticarum lectionum libri VI 1617 Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides. Sive de tragoediis eorum 1619 Panathenaea. Sive de Minervae illo gemino festo 1619 Eleusinia. Sive de Cereris Eleusinae sacro ac festo 1619 Fortuna Attica. Sive de Athenarum origine 1622 Archontes Athenienses. Sive de ijs qui Athenis summum istum magistratum obierunt 1622 Cecropia. Sive de Athenarum arce & ejusdem antiquitatibus 1622 De ludis Graecorum 1622 Pisistratus. Sive de ejus vita & tyrannide 1623 Athenae Atticae. Sive de praecipuis Athenarum antiquitatibus 1624 Areopagus. Sive de senatu areopagitico 1624 Regnum Atticum. Sive de regibus Atheniensium 1633 Reliqua Attica; sive ad librum De populis Atticae paralipomena 1684 Theseus sive de ejus vita rebusque gestis 1684 Themis Attica sive De legibus Atticis 1685 It is manifest that Meursius with these works laid the foundations of much later learning. � The works in this convolute have been edited by J.G. Graevius who has added at the beginning of the 'Theseus' a dedicatio to Carolus Sanctamauraeus tutor of the Dauphin of France Collation: A-G4 H2; 2A-E4; 4 A-R4 chiS4 S2; after the last textpage of the Theseus leaf R4 a gathering chiS with an 'Index rerum' has been inserted before the 'Index auctorum' to which the catchword of R4-verso is referring. STCN errs in indicating S2 as chiS2; 2 A-X4 Y2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 130111

‎CICERO.‎

‎Commentationes diversorum partim antea partim nunc primum editae in Epist. M.T. Ciceronis quae olim Familiares dictae nunc rectius Ad Familiares appellantur.‎

‎N.pl. Geneva Excudebat Henr. Stephanus 1577. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: VIII2311 blank;2051 blank p. Vellum 16.5 cm Ref: GLN-6033; Renouard Estienne 144; Schreiber Estiennes no. 15; Dibdin 1423 Details: The vellum that the binder used comes from a once sumptuously calligraphed manuscript leaf with Psalm 118 vss 17/21 written in six lines: 'Retribue servo tuo vivifica me et custodiam sermones tuos./ Revela oculos meos et considerabo mirabilia de lege tua./ Incola ego sum de sic! terra non abscondas a me mandata tua./ Concupivit anima mea desiderare iustificationes tuas in omni tempore./ Increpasti superbos maledicti qui declinant a mandatis tuis'. The letter is the gothic 'textura' used for liturgical texts in the 14th & 15th century and the example for the first typeface. The margins are ample. The first R is a huge capital; several smaller capitals have traces of gilt; the text is partly faded by wear but readable. Printer's Olive tree device of the Stephanus family on the title page motto: 'Noli altum sapere' short for 'Noli altum sapere sed time' in English 'Donot be high-minded but fear'. Epistola Beati Pauli ad Romanos 1120 Condition: Vellum worn & soiled. Front hinge cracking. Ownership entry on the title page. On the title also in old ink: 'Liber non adeo frequens'. Small name cut out of the title leaving a tiny hole of 2 mm x 23 mm. Printer's mark on the title skillfully handcoloured. Some old ink underlinings and annotations in the text. No flyleaves Note: For centuries the Roman orator author and politician Cicero retained a central position as a school author and a model for good writing on protestant schools and in Jesuit colleges. The period of his greatest glory was the Renaissance when he became the object of a literary cult called Ciceronianism. Many humanists took him as an absolute model for pure Latin and an elegant style. Petrarch modeled his own 'Epistolae Familiares' in part on Cicero's 'Epistulae ad Familiares'. Petrarch created like Cicero in his letters 'a kind of autobiography and a partial history of his own life and time.' Petrarca 'helped establish Cicero as a uniquely powerful stylistic model and intellectual resource'. The Classical tradition N.Y. 2010 p. 196 . This 1577 book on offer contains a choice of the commentaries on the 'Epistulae ad Familiares' of diverse leading scholars. It is Stephanus tells in the preface an accompanying volume to the edition of the 'Epistulae ad Familiares' which he published in the same year. This supplementary volume contains the commentary scholia on the letters by Paulus Manutius 'locorum aliquot explicationes & emendationes' of Willem Canter the 'emendationum rationes' of Dionysius Lambinus an excerpt of the 'adversaria' of Adrianus Turnebus a 'commentariolus' of Stephanus himself. The second part 205 pages contains the according to Stephanus very useful 'commentarius' of the Italian bishop Gerolamo Ragazzoni or Hieronymus Ragazzonius 1537-1592. Part 1 p.5 Provenance: 'Sum Jan. Hermanni Demmingeri Nornb'. This might be the cleric Johann Hermann Demminger from 1597 till 1605 'Pfarrer' at Feucht a walk of 3 hours from Nurnberg. He moved to Nurnberg for from 1505-1623 he was curate and deacon of the local 'Spital-Kirche' Collation: a4; a-b8 c4 d-p8 leaf h8 blank p8 verso blank; a-f8 g4 h-n8 o4 min blank leaf o4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 120056

‎LUCRETIUS.‎

‎Titus Lucretius Carus Von der Natur. Ein Lehrgedicht in sechs B�chern. Uebersetzt und erl�utert von Johann Heinrich Friedrich Meineke des F�rstl. Quedlinburgischen Gymnasii Rector.‎

‎Leipzig In der Weidmannischen Buchhandlung 1795. 8vo. 2 volumes: XXIV4142; 4051 p. Half calf. 20.5 cm Ref: Not yet in VD18; Neue Pauly Supplement 2 p. 376 �F 6; Gordon 406; Ebert 12468; Schweiger 2579: 'Meineke schm�ckt den Dichter an manchen Stellen zu sehr aus'; Graesse 4289 Details: Back ruled gilt and with gilt lettering. Latin text with parallel German translation including short notes at the bottom of the pages Condition: Binding worn. Paper on the boards scuffed. Corners slightly bumped. Occasional ink underlinings in the first volume. Paper yellowing some foxing. Small hole in the first titlepage skillfully repaired Note: The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius was much admired in the age of Enlightenment. 'Virtually every major figure of the period was in some way influenced by Lucretius'. S. Gillespie and Ph. Hardie Cambridge Companion to Lucretius 2007 p. 274. Lucretius acted as shield-bearer and mouthpiece of the Greek philosopher Epicurus by explaining in his didactic poem 'De rerum natura' Epicurus' physical theories 'with a view to abolishing superstitious fears of the intervention of the gods in the world and of the punishment of the soul in an after-life'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 623 � The German translator of Lucretius' poem Johann Heinrich Friedrich Meineke 1745-1825 was a theologian and schoolmaster. From 1780 he was Rector of the Gymnasium of Quedlinburg his hometown. Meineke wrote numerous books on a wide range of subjects. His best known work is this 1795 translation of 'De rerum natura' which was praised by for example the 'German Anacreon' Ludwig Gleim and the wellknown poet translator and critic August Schlegel. � His translation 'oder wenn man lieber will Paraphrase' is rather free he tells in the preface for he did not want to make Lucretius unenjoyable for German readers 'ohne auf der andern Seite den deutschen Lukrez durch eine zu sklavische Anh�nglichkeit an jedes Wort und Ausdruck ungeniessbar zu machen' p. IX On the advice of the poet Christoph Martin Wieland an important figure in the German 'Aufkl�rung' Meineke chose a kind of German hexameter for his verse translation. p. XI. He did not translate he says for scholars of even a learned public but for young students who 'den speculativen Geist der Alten aus ihren eignen Schriften wollen kennen lernen und denen es an hinl�nglichen Wortkenntnissen oder welches noch �fter der Fall ist an Hilfsmittlen fehlt diesen in der That nicht leichen Dichter mit einiger Fertigkeit zu lesen und in den Umfang seines ganzen Systems einzudringen'. p. XIX Meineke acknowledges that at first the censor 'ein hochw�rdiges Oberconsistorium in Dresden' had objections and forbade publication of his translation. The censure was however lifted on the condition that Meineke added enough antidote Gegengift to his notes and left out some passages that were too juicy. That is why 'einige etwas zu plump aufgedeckte Geheimnisse der physischen Venus �bergangen w�rden'. p. XXII The translated passages that Meineke had to leave out are represented by dots. Lucky enough the censor had no problem with the Latin text See for censorship in Germany at the end of the 18th century Wikipedia's 'Zensuredikt vom 19. Dezember 1788' and 'Geschichte der Zensur' Collation: a8 b4 A-2C8 leaf 2C8 verso blank; pi1 A-2A8 2B6 2B6 plus 1 2C4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 156865

‎William M. James‎

‎A Study of the Entamoebae of Man in the Panama Canal Zone‎

‎LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE 1914. Paperback. Used; Acceptable. title page missing ex-library copy paperback. corners bumped wear to head & tail of spine. text illustrations. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #2726848</p> LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE paperback‎

Referencia librero : 2726848

‎Galsworthy John‎

‎SWAN SONG FORSYTE SAGA‎

‎Collins 1939. Paperback. Used; Good. reprint paperback in 'slip-on' hard cover. covers very good internally very good green cloth. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #2881603</p> Collins paperback‎

Referencia librero : 2881603

‎Thomas Dekker‎

‎THE SEVEN DEADLY SINNES OF LONDON‎

‎Cambridge University Press 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Used; Good. Edition: First Edition. 1st edition thus type facsimile of 1606 edition. Limited to 250 copies on hand-made paper. No dust jacket. Quarter vellum and grey paper boards. Spine discoloured. Corners and edges bumped. Blind stamped or the top layer removed chipped label on front. Internally very good. Armorial bookplate of George Laurence Gomme. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #2895135</p> Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

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‎DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS.‎

‎Dionusiou Halikarnase�s ta heuriskomena historika te kai rh�torika syngrammataDionysii Halicarnassei scripta quae extant omnia et historica et rhetorica: Tomus I: E veterum librorum auctoritate doctorumque hominum animadversionibus quamplurimis in locis emendata & interpolata; cum Latine versione . Addita fragmenta quaedam cum Glareani Chronologia . Additae etiam Notae . Bound with: Tomus II Rhetoricos ejus et criticos libros continens; duobus tractatibus nusquam ante vulgatis auctus. Addita sex tractatuum versio Latina . Additus item notarum libellus . Index . Catalogus singulorum tractatuum tam eorum qui exstant quam eorum qui adhuc desiderantur. Opera & studio Friderici Sylburgii Veterensis.‎

‎Leipzig Lipsiae Impensis Mauritii Georgii Weidmanni literis Christophori Guntheri 1691. Folio. 2 volumes in 1: XVI792 16912 blank; XII28094 p. Calf. 38 cm Ref: VD17 3:314537K; Hoffmann 1582; Schweiger 199; Moss 1408/09; Dibdin 1508; Brunet 2725; Graesse 2400; Ebert 6222 Spoelder Den Haag 5 p. 580 Details: Prize copy without the prize. Back ruled gilt and with 7 raised bands a red morocco shield in the 2nd compartment. Boards with gilt borders and with the gilt coat of arms of The Hague. Edges of the book-block gilt. Marbled endpapers. Two titles both printed in red and black. Engraved printer's mark on the titles depicting the globe and the zodiac. Woodcut initials. Volume one is printed in 2 columns. Greek text and Latin translation. Condition: Binding slightly scuffed and scratched. Backstrip faintly splitting at head and tail. Fronthinge a bit cracking. Endpapers renewed in the 19th century. Paper yellowing. Some foxing and occasionally heavy browning Note: This 1691 edition of the works of the Greek rhetor and historian Dionysius Halicarnassensis who came to Rome ca. 30 B.C. to teach rhetoric and who spent there at least 22 years consists of 2 volumes. The first contains the historical works of Dionysius the 'Antiquitates Romanae' p. 1-748 printed in 2 columns text with a parallel Latin translation; after which comes the 'Chronologia' Timechart of Henricus Glareanus p. 750-71 then the text of the 'Origo Gentis Romanae' The origins of the Roman Race a short historiographic literary compilation starting with Saturn and finishing with Romulus. This small work was once attributed to Aurelius Victor. p. 772-78; it is followed by the commentary of the Flemish scholar Andreas Schottus to the 'Origo Gentis Romanae' p. 778-780 and 'Leges regiae et leges decemvirales Justi Lipsii opera studiose collectae' p. 780-792 and at the end we find the commentary of Sylburg to the 'Antiquitates Romanae' p. 1-88 and lastly indices p. 88-169. Volume 2 contains the Greek text of Dionysius' 'Scripta rhetorica' starting with the 'Peri sunthese�s onomat�n' the only surviving ancient treatise on word-arrangement and euphony; 'Peri t�n archai�n rh�tor�n' in which Dionysius' distaste for the hollow pathos of 'Asianic' rhetoric is explained; a series of discussions of the orators Lysias Isocrates Isaeus and Dinarchus then letters of Dionysius to one Ammaeus on Demosthenes and the style of Thucydides. Hereafter follows the Latin translation of these treatises. At the end we find a 40 page commentary of Sylburg to the rhetorical works of Dionysius and an index. � Dionysus' historical work the 'Antiquitates Romanae' is little known and little read nowadays. The work is of some use to students of Roman antiquities for it preserves a good many interesting facts concerning the earliest civil and religious institutions. 11 books with excerpts from 9 have come down to us carrying the narrative down to 271 B.C. Dionysius' work on literary criticism however still is of importance for it shows that he was an acute and excellent critic with good taste great knowledge and a subtle judgement. H.J. Rose 'A handbook of Greek literature' London 1965 p. 399 The historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus enjoyed great authority until the 18th century. He was thought to be superior to the other Roman historians who wrote about the early history of Rome. His influence on the 'artes historicae' of the Renaissance is great. He was admired by Bodin Vossius and Scaliger. Then the spirit of the Enlightenment made his poetic conception of history obsolete. Scholars like the Dutch ancient historian Perizonius made mincemeat of him and burried him in the dust of oblivion. The 'Altertumswissenschaft' of the 19th century held him also in low esteem and he was degraded to a 'Graeculus' an insignificant Greek. The last decades seem to be friendlier for Dionysius. Bowersock Gabba � As an acute stylistic critic Dionysius still is of importance. � This edition of 1691 is a reissue of an edition published at Frankfurt in 1586 by Friedrich Sylburg. Neue Pauly Supplement 2 p. 216 � 'A thorough knowledge of Greek considerable critical acumen and an intelligent application of great powers of work were the main characteristics of Friedrich Sylburg 1536-1596'. Sandys 2 p. 270 In 1583 he settled in Frankfurt working there for 8 years for the press of Wechel. He edited at Frankfurt the complete Aristotle and Dionysius Halicarnassensis. The last work was published by the firm of Wechel in 1586 and it included also the Latin translation Basle 1549 of the Bohemian classical scholar Sigismund Gelenius 1497-1554 which was emended by Sylburg Collation: 8 A-3V6; Aa-Vv4 Xx6 leaf Xx6 blank; :6 a-k6 l8 m-z6; aa-mm4 minus blank leaf mm4 Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 11705

‎House of Collectibles‎

‎Official 1984 BlackBook Price Guide Of United States Paper Money 16th Edition‎

‎House of Collectibles 1983. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. House of Collectibles paperback‎

Referencia librero : G0876373872I3N00 ISBN : 0876373872 9780876373873

‎House Of Collectibles‎

‎Ency of Antiques‎

‎House of Collectibles 1985. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. House of Collectibles paperback‎

Referencia librero : G0876373651I3N00 ISBN : 0876373651 9780876373651

‎BIOGRAPHIA CLASSICA.‎

‎Biographia Classica: the lives and characters of all classic authors the Grecian and Roman poets historians orators and biographers with an historical and critical account of them and their writings; illustrating their several excellencies and shewing their defects from the judgment and remarks of the most celebrated critics both ancient and modern.‎

‎London Printed for D. Browne at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar 1740. 12mo. 2 volumes VII1 table of content3311 advertisement; IV28424 stocklist of Daniel Browne p. Contemporary calf. 17 cm Ref: ESTC Citation No. T26541 Details: Backs with 5 raised bands; gilt coat of arms on the boards Condition: A book in need of a new binding which is very shabby scratched & scuffed: First volume: upper board loose with the first 2 leaves still attached to it. Endpapers renewed. Last leaf attached to the endpapers with a strip of paper. Second volume: Upper board loose ownership inscription on both titles. Paper yellowing Note: In the eighteenth century the literature of the ancient Greeks and Romans was not only studied by scholars and students who knew their Greek and Latin it attracted also larger audiences. A history of literature in the vernacular providing a canon of what was best did not exist. A demand arose for a manual that offered a history of literature and that at the same time was a safe guide and model of taste. Such an effort to discuss the entire practice of ancient literature coherently and in detail was published anonymously in England in 1740. It set out to establish a standard of taste and knowledge that educated man could draw upon when they wished to discuss seriously about the classics. � The first volume of this Biographia Classica of 1740 is devoted to Greek and Roman poets the second to Greek and Roman historians and orators. The authors are treated in separate chapters and in chronological order. The work is made we are told by the compiler in the preface for the 'young student who begins to tread upon Classic ground in order to conduct him with plaesure and advantage through the course of his studies. . I would have it understood that the following volumes are chiefly design'd for the use and instruction of younger scholars tho' perhaps they may be of real benefit to Gentlemen who have for some years neglected the advantages of their education and have a mind to resume those pleasant and useful studies in which they formerly made a progress at the schools or universities'. Volume 1 p. A2 verso The author critizes the unreadable predecessors who 'seem to have studied more to display their own accomplishments and the quaintness of their own skill than to inform the young student that wants help. . They overpower you with pompous and long quotations that cover above half their paper. Besides their thoughts lie loose and scattered and unconnected they are generally flat and tedious'. Idem p. a1 recto/verso The author promises that in his own survey 'you will find in a close and compact view and the opinion of the best criticks . in a regular order. . I believe I am the first that ever compiled a work of this nature without a multitude of quotations; and since I did not see the necessity of it I was willing to avoid all shew and ostentation of learning'. Idem p. a1 verso The author knows that he did not produce a masterpiece of criticism. 'With great caution I offer any thing of my own judgment . Idem ibidem The Biographia Classica was a useful book at least as a propaedeutic. Indeed this work is uncritical its method is cursory and its judgments are superficial and it is absurd to judge the compiler of the Biographia Classica according to modern standards yet compared with many earlier and contemporary indigestible works the modern reader immediately observes a remote likeness to books like 'A handbook of Greek literature' and 'A handbook of Latin literature' both by H.J. Rose and both standard student manuals during the last half of the 20th century. � A corrected edition of the Biographia Classica was published in 1778 by Edward Harwood. Provenance: Gilt coat of arms of the Scottish 'Society of the writers to the Signet' on all 4 boards Collation: A2a2; B-O12 P10; pi2 B-M12N10 O12 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 120446

‎HOMERUS.‎

‎HOM�ROU BATRACHOMUOMACHIA. Homeri Batrachomyomachia.‎

‎Maastricht The Halcyon Press 1929. Colophon: 'Trajecti ad Mosam vulgo Maastricht editum impensis Alexandri Stols' 4to. 20 p. Red/brown morocco. 28.5 cm On the last page: 'Haec BATRACHOMYOMACHIA HOMERI editio anno Mdccccxxix impressa est Harlemi in Officina Enschedaniana typis graecis quorum forma inventa est a Iano van Krimpen. Exemplaria sunt emissa CXXV charta batava quorum hic est numerus XXXV' Ref: Van Dijk 182 Details: No. 35 of 125 copies printed. Secured in a cardboard slipcase covered with marbled paper. Bound by the well known bookbinder Louis Malcorps. Back with 4 raised bands with the Greek title gilt in the second compartment and the gilt year 1929 at the foot of the spine. Boards with a blind ruled border. Blind ruled turn-ins showing at the 4 corners a floral vignet. Marbled endpapers. Fine printing. Dutch laid paper of excellent quality Hollandsch Papier Condition: The slipcase shows some wear. The leather back slightly faded and showing some small and faint scratches Note: The superb typeface the so-called 'Antigone' was designed by the famous Dutch typographer book designer and type designer Jan van Krimpen 1892-1958. This letter is in the Netherlands well known because it was used for an excellent school edition of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey which remained in use at all Dutch gymnasia from 1937 well into the eighties. Van Krimpen worked for the printing house Koninklijke Joh. Ensched�. He also worked with Monotype in England and the Limited Editions Club of New York. Van Krimpen was a leading figure of international reputation in book printing during his lifetime. His work has been described as traditional and classical in style focusing on simplicity and high quality of book printing. Source Wikipedia In 1922 Van Krimpen befriended the bibliophile A.A.M. Stols 1900-1973 who was just had started a publishing firm. From 1923 to 1932 he designed for Stols printer's devices bindings and stamps and after some time he also took care of the typography. Supported by Van Krimpen Stols produced some of the most beautiful typographical works. Over the years the 'Trajectum ad Mosam' press brought more than 550 titles which excelled in typography on the market. � Stols' Halcyon Series was a bibliophile series published between 1927 and 1958 by A.A.M. Stols. He also issued a magazine under this name devoted to the beautiful book and related subjects which appeared from 1940-1944. 'Halcyon' is the Greek word for kingfisher Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 155620